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GE to spin off digital business as a standalone industrial IoT company
General Electric Co. ended months of speculation about the fate of its digital business unit today, saying it plans to spin it off as a standalone industrial “internet of things” company. GE has also decided to sell a majority stake in its ServiceMax field service management software, which was a part of the GE Digital ...
Microsoft creates an A/B testing tool called Clarity
Microsoft Corp. today debuted a new web analytics tool called Clarity that’s designed to help developers understand user behavior at large scale. The tool can help developers to work out why website users struggle or run into problems and why they abandon a site altogether. The so-called A/B testing tool works by comparing two versions of ...
Smiles all round for server makers as quarterly revenue tops $23B
The world’s biggest computer server makers were basking in the sunshine during the third quarter, making the most of a nearly 38 percent jump in market revenue that topped $23.36 billion. According to International Data Corp.’s latest quarterly market tracker, server shipments also grew nicely, by 18 percent, to 3.161 million units. Dell Technologies Inc., which is ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE
Oracle takes Pentagon to court over its $10B JEDI cloud computing contract
Oracle Corp. is refusing to give up its fight for a piece of the U.S. Defense Department’s massive $10 billion cloud computing contract. Oracle, along with other public cloud providers, has been squabbling over DoD’s decade-long Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract for most of the year, arguing that the bidding process violates U.S. acquisition regulations. ...
Big data company AtScale grabs $50M in late-stage funding round
Business intelligence abstraction platform provider AtScale Inc. today said it has closed a $50 million late-stage round of funding. The Series D round was led by Morgan Stanley, with participation from new investors as well as AtScale’s previous investors Storm Ventures, Wells Fargo and Atlantic Bridge. The money will be used mainly to finance innovation, the ...
Instaclustr expands Apache Cassandra with new open-source software
Instaclustr Pty Ltd., which sells hosted and managed versions of popular open-source software Apache Cassandra, Spark and Kafka, is giving back to the community with three projects of its own. The company says it’s open-sourcing three “purpose-built” projects aimed at addressing pain points and expanding the capabilities of the Apache Cassandra database. Apache Cassandra is ...
Developers can now deploy serverless workloads to any cloud on GitLab
Software code hosting provider GitLab Inc. is getting into the serverless computing game. The company said today it’s teaming up with a firm called TriggerMesh Inc. on a new product developers can use to deploy serverless workloads to any cloud platform directly from the GitLab user interface. Serverless computing is an execution model in which ...
Pivotal Software finds its feet with strong earnings
Shares in Pivotal Software Inc. rose in after-hours trading after the cloud company reported decent third-quarter results that beat analysts’ expectations. The company, which makes software that lets enterprises build cloud computing applications more easily, posted a quarterly loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of 5 cents per share. Revenue came to $168.1 million ...
Google announces beta of Istio service mesh on its Kubernetes Engine
Google LLC has just announced beta availability of what it says is a critical tool for managing a relatively new kind of software emerging in the cloud computing era. The public cloud computing giant is one of the main developers of Istio, the open-source “service mesh” is used to connect, manage and secure microservices, which in ...
Oracle pitches new serverless computing options for developers
Oracle Corp. is pitching a new serverless computing platform under the umbrella of its Cloud Native Framework services bundle, which was released today. The serverless offering, called Oracle Functions, is based on the open source Fn Project hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The Fn project is a cloud-agnostic serverless platform that’s designed to ...